The BYU folkdance team comes to Burgos

7/20  So unfortunately we have had a lot of stuff fail us this week. It was a little rough, but we also had several magnificent visits with a few people. We were able to have a visit with Luminita (recent convert) and her family. Robert, one of her sons, told us that he has made tremendous progress with quitting smoking. It made me very happy to hear that. Their family is doing great, and they are so ready for baptism. It is a little difficult to get them to church though. We will keep working on that. They have told us that they want to be baptized though, so I am super excited!

Ana and Victor are another family we are working with. As of now, we teach their two little boys English and try to share a message at the end. Their family is so perfect! They are such good parents, and the kids love praying. We invited them to an activity with the BYU group that came on Saturday, and they absolutely loved it! It was a great opportunity for them to get to know the branch, especially the branch president and his family. We think those two families would be such great friends! We are really excited for them!

I learned a lot about how to work hard and stay strong even when all our plans fail this week. My companion is such a hard worker, and he never lets anything discourage him. We worked hard this week, and I am looking forward to working hard next week as well.

A little more on this BYU group. There was a folklore festival here in Burgos this week, and as part of that there were several groups from other countries that came here to participate in the festivals. The BYU group came as part of a tour they are doing. On Saturday they came to the chapel for an activity with the branch. They did a couple of dances, then took everyone outside and taught them square dancing. For obvious reasons, the missionaries were excluded, but it was so fun to watch them! It was also really cool to see people from home. The members loved it, and people out on the streets were really interested and stopped to watch and ask questions. Great contacting opportunities! So this week has some very interesting things going on. We ran into the group a couple of times in the street, and that was fun. 

Mom was very excited to receive a text from BYU's artistic

director when she ran into Elder Male & Elder Wheat!